sea onion

Questions about sea onion

What does sea onion mean?

sea onion means "having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sea onion?

Close synonyms include sea squill, squill, Urginea maritima, spring squill, Scilla verna. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sea onion a common word?

sea onion is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.